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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 1, 2020 9:36:22 GMT
I was worried from the trailer it might get a little confusing. Glad that didn't happen.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 1, 2020 11:21:30 GMT
It makes sense and doesn't make sense to me at the moment. Like I get the gist of it, but a lot of the details have me scratching my head big time.
I definitely plan to give it multiple re-watches.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 1, 2020 21:09:00 GMT
It makes sense and doesn't make sense to me at the moment. Like one part of you is going forwards and the other backwards? Dios oim! I'd usually figure out what was going on about 15 minutes afterward. Though I still don't understand: -how Ivan Branagh was using the painting to blackmail Rooney Blunt
-anything involving the Indian woman
I also needed Wikipedia to understand Ivan Branagh's plan. I suppose that was his future self that Rooney Blunt shot, thus no paradox?
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Post by Jason143 on Sept 1, 2020 21:19:48 GMT
I want to know.. Why did the world not end when the woman on the boat shot Ivan in the chest before the black guy on the boat gave the flare signal to do so. It was explained that if you kill Ivan and his heartbeat drops below a certain point it would cause annihilation of both world entropies. Protagonist was trying to capture some device in the other scenes but the woman shot Ivan before he got them.
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 2, 2020 2:50:10 GMT
It makes sense and doesn't make sense to me at the moment. Like one part of you is going forwards and the other backwards? Dios oim! I'd usually figure out what was going on about 15 minutes afterward. Though I still don't understand: -how Ivan Branagh was using the painting to blackmail Rooney Blunt
-anything involving the Indian woman
I also needed Wikipedia to understand Ivan Branagh's plan. I suppose that was his future self that Rooney Blunt shot, thus no paradox? I was also very confused about the details of Sator's plan and why when she kills him nothing bad happens. I was under the impression that some doomsday time devise was to be activated upon his death.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Sept 2, 2020 3:24:31 GMT
It makes sense and doesn't make sense to me at the moment. Like one part of you is going forwards and the other backwards? Dios oim! I'd usually figure out what was going on about 15 minutes afterward. Though I still don't understand: -how Ivan Branagh was using the painting to blackmail Rooney Blunt
-anything involving the Indian woman
I also needed Wikipedia to understand Ivan Branagh's plan. I suppose that was his future self that Rooney Blunt shot, thus no paradox? The painting was a forgery, and he could turn her in to the police any time he chooses. Thus, he power power over her.
The Indian woman I think was purposefully pushing the Protagonist to let the last piece of the Algorithm fall into Sator's hands because that way they would have all the pieces in one place in order to steal it from Sator. At the end, she's trying to "tie up loose ends", which presumably means that she think the lady knows too much.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 2, 2020 8:44:34 GMT
Like one part of you is going forwards and the other backwards? Dios oim! I'd usually figure out what was going on about 15 minutes afterward. Though I still don't understand: -how Ivan Branagh was using the painting to blackmail Rooney Blunt
-anything involving the Indian woman
I also needed Wikipedia to understand Ivan Branagh's plan. I suppose that was his future self that Rooney Blunt shot, thus no paradox? I was also very confused about the details of Sator's plan and why when she kills him nothing bad happens. I was under the impression that some doomsday time devise was to be activated upon his death. Seems like you, me, and Jason are all lost on this one. For a second I thought it'd turn into Melancholia.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 2, 2020 8:47:46 GMT
Like one part of you is going forwards and the other backwards? Dios oim! I'd usually figure out what was going on about 15 minutes afterward. Though I still don't understand: -how Ivan Branagh was using the painting to blackmail Rooney Blunt
-anything involving the Indian woman
I also needed Wikipedia to understand Ivan Branagh's plan. I suppose that was his future self that Rooney Blunt shot, thus no paradox? The painting was a forgery, and he could turn her in to the police any time he chooses. Thus, he power power over her.
The Indian woman I think was purposefully pushing the Protagonist to let the last piece of the Algorithm fall into Sator's hands because that way they would have all the pieces in one place in order to steal it from Sator. At the end, she's trying to "tie up loose ends", which presumably means that she think the lady knows too much. So she sold her own husband a forged painting? Was it on accident or part of her dislike of him?
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Post by Vits on Sept 2, 2020 10:20:11 GMT
I don't want to encourage anyone to risk their lives. The only reason why I saw TENET is because the cinema I went to had the proper safety measures and because I live in Rome, where the COVID-19 cases aren't as high as other places (at least for now). If your situation is similar to mine, that's a whole other conversation. Now, the plot revolves around a secret mission. So secret that, a couple of times, the agents and the employers discuss it in public, including a ferry where they're surrounded by people. Wait, what? Like most of Christopher Nolan's works, we have a complicated plot involving a lot of real science and philosophy in our hands. Unfortunately, there's something missing that was present in his previous projects: Strong emotions that drive the main characters through their journey (a husband trying to kill his wife's murderer, a father who misses his son and daughter, a father who misses his daughter and I guess his son too, etc...). Here, we learn nothing about our hero. And don't tell me that's the point, like in DUNKIRK. That was because the soldiers served as vessels for the viewers to insert ourselves into, in order to feel what it's like to be in a war zone. Not to mention that 2017 hit was designed to be a complete visual and auditory experience. This one balances the images and the audio the same way most movies do, and the protagonist is presented as a real person. Without knowing what motivates him on a personal level (instead of just wanting to save the world), I couldn't connect with him and, by extension, with the movie. Also, he and a lot of the other characters are similar in terms of personality, whether they're displaying their inner strength, their intelligence or their sense of humor, so they don't stand out, unlike INCEPTION with its group of distinct individuals. Speaking of that 2010 classic, it didn't matter that the events were written as a traditional heist film, because they took place inside people's dreams. All kinds of unpredictable and imaginative things happened in each environment. Here, a special element is introduced early on, but it's not used to the fullest until the 2nd half. The 1st half is a traditional spy film (and not a very interesting one) that occasionally turns into science fiction. It would be easy to dismiss Jennifer Lame's editing as choppy. I mean, I can't remember a shot lasting more than 5 or even 2 seconds (to be fair, I wasn't actually timing them). There are even moments where a character is doing something and in the very next shot they're doing something else in another part of the room, indicating that at least a couple of seconds have passed. However, that and the near total lack of establishing shots makes me think that her hands were tied and she was just doing her best to reduce the running time down to 150 minutes. Honestly, I would've preferred it if she had deleted full scenes. Trust me: Not all of them were indispensable. No other aspect about this production is bad at all, but without something to get invested in, what's the point? 5/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog.I want to know.. Why did the world not end when the woman on the boat shot Ivan in the chest before the black guy on the boat gave the flare signal to do so. It was explained that if you kill Ivan and his heartbeat drops below a certain point it would cause annihilation of both world entropies. Protagonist was trying to capture some device in the other scenes but the woman shot Ivan before he got them.
I'm pretty sure he was South Asian.
They deactivated what connected the bomb to his heart beat right on time.
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